By Tori Richards
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Maria's body was discovered by her ex-husband, Irving Bruno, who showed up at her house one morning to take her to work.
The couple had gone out to dinner the night before and Maria had too much to drink, so she left her car at Irving Bruno's home and he drove her back to her apartment around 1:30 a.m. Detective Lillienfeld took a close look at Bruno, knowing that most murders are committed by someone with personal ties to the victim. He came away convinced that Bruno wasn't the killer.
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| Maria with Children |
"They had an amicable divorce and were on friendly terms," Lillienfeld said. "They worked together at a family-owned video store and have young children. He had no motive to want her dead." Bruno also had an alibi in the form of a constant surveillance tape that records the interior of his home because he had a live-in nanny caring for his children. The tape was time-stamped.
An immigrant from El Salvador, Maria Bruno was an orphan and didn't have much family in the United States except for a few aunts and uncles. She and Irving Bruno had been married more than a decade and had four children together. While in her 20s, Maria had an agent and worked part-time as a print model.
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